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This family of a mother and children collect rubbish for recycling. Every day they make their rounds of the street rubbish bins, collecting what they can sell. In this way they earn about two hundred baht a week. The youngest is still at home, she’s only two. This picture is in front of a house where they have just collected some cardboard and plastic bottles.

They live here, surrounded by rubbish in a one room leaky shack with no electricity or running water."The whole family share the one room and sleep under one mosquito net on a single mattress. When it rains water comes in through the roof and sides of their hut. O has provided the mother of this family with financial assistance in sending the youngest child to a kindergarten, clothing and some food supplies.













The Last Post

Record of incomes and expenditures.

June 2008 to April 2009

Received: 50,000 baht
Spent:
School children: 30,000 baht
Aged people: 17,500 baht
Staff member: 5,000 baht


April 30 2009 to April 30 2010

Received: 132,100 baht
Spent:
School Children and Aged: 80,900 baht
Staff member: 6,000 baht
Balance: 45,200 baht

April 30 2010 to April 30 2011

Received: 45,647 baht
Spent: 67,000 baht
Balance: 25,157 baht